by stevengconnelly@aol.com | May 13, 2016 | Mindset
Life can be a blessing or a challenge. Do you ever find yourself just getting up everyday and feel like you’re on a treadmill and nothing seems to change? No matter what you do every day ends up with the same results! Over time this “treadmill” can lead to a depressive condition. The good news is there are two conditions which cannot operate at the same time, when you’re frustrated and when you’re making progress. The key to happiness is progress. Have you ever noticed some people are always happy? On the other hand ever notice some people are always unhappy? If a situation comes up which is out of their control happy people find a way to look for the good while unhappy people look for the bad! Why is that? It is directly related to their physiology. If a person spends each day with a negative physiology, that’s what will be reinforced in their life every day! We all have had challenges through out our lives, sometimes “life hits us” when we least expect it. The problem is if we focus too much on the past or look too far into the future does not change a thing, it only leads to more frustration. Just wishing things were different has never worked for anyone. We all have the power to change that by focusing on the present moment, which is where our attention must be. When you find yourself feeling like your on a treadmill…Change your physical state sit up straight in your chair, put on some music that you like, go for a walk or...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | May 7, 2016 | Social Media
With the development of social media over the years, reaching out to more people becomes quick and easy which can lead to more potential customers and more sales for your business. I am asked this question at least once a week , how do you add more friends on Facebook? What is the secret? Truth is there are no secrets. However there a few things that will help you connect with more people…Bottom line just be yourself. One of the first things you should do before you start sending out friend requests is look at your profile, do you have a picture of yourself? People are more likely to want to be friends with you if you have a picture of yourself! What do you have on your cover photo? Pictures of landscape are nice to look at however people are looking to see who you are, put a picture of you and your family there, if you don’t have a family put a picture of you with your significant other there. When you post follow these three steps: If you and I are going to attract more followers we must provide some sort of value for people to want to follow us. Show pictures of yourself having fun, people will be attracted to you if you are having fun in your business. Document your success, post your results over the past day, week, or month. If you haven’t had success find someone in your company who has had success and post their results. This is a great way to validate what you say. Before you send out a...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Apr 30, 2016 | Success
There are many people attribute their success to what they read on a regular basis. However there are also people who have had no success! Why is that? We feed our bodies but what do we feed our minds with? Over the years I have read many books on “self help” which by the title should “help” you to be successful, right? Don’t get me wrong I am very grateful for what each author has written, and every book I have read has made a positive impact on my life. But somewhere along the line there is a missing piece to the puzzle. Why is it that two people can read the same book and have such a different result? One person reads a book and becomes wealthy, while another does not have success. Back in 2013 a friend of (we’ll call her Jane to keep her name private) mine was getting ready to retire she invested all her life earnings with a trusted investor, Jane was referred by a friend and felt she could rely on his decisions to handle the account. I can remember how excited she was to retire, and how she was going to travel. Perhaps start a business. A few months later I got a call from her telling me the man who invested her savings had disappeared, he was no where to be found, and so was the money. I can’t imagine how that must have felt. All those years of earnings disappeared! But instead of feeling sorry for herself she went out and turned her life around. Jane began reading self help...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Apr 22, 2016 | Mindset
There are times when no matter what you do, things just seem to go wrong. It could be at work, in your business or in our personal life, when things start to go wrong we just get frustrated…Sound familiar? When my daughter was younger (I can’t believe how fast the time has gone by) she loved to watch Harry Potter. On occasion there would be a “Harry Potter weekend”, she would watch that on and off all day. Don’t get me wrong I am not a big fan of just letting my children sit in front of the T.V. all day. However I knew how much she enjoyed to sit back and watch the show. Then one day my daughter came to me and told me how amazing the author was, I thought to myself who is she talking about? You’d think by now I would know!! So I did some research on the author, turns out her name is Joanne Rowling better known as J.K.Rowling incorporating her “pen” name after her grandmother Kathleen. J.K. Rowling attended Exeter University. After J.K. graduated college got married, her daughter Jessica was born in 1993. When her marriage ended in divorce she moved to Edinburgh to be near her sister.While struggling to support herself and daughter Jessica, J.K. wrote a book, and idea she thought about in 1990. The rest is history! Although her situation was not good she used that time to focus on an idea from her past. So how can we change our thinking when life happens? One of the best ways to change our lives is to go...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Apr 16, 2016 | Life
Did you know pain can be a bigger motivator than pleasure? At any moment in our lives the reality we live is directly related to what we focus on, our desire to avoid pain and our need to gain pleasure. So how do we use pain as a motivator? Have you ever decided you wanted to go on a diet? I think we all have at one point in our lives. Ever notice how that favorite food you like looks better than ever? You say to yourself…Well I’ll just have a little piece it wont hurt me I’ve been good this week! Doesn’t it taste good when we eat it! We have instant pleasure and forget about our diet. Remember other times when that favorite food looks good but you don’t eat it! Why is that? In our mind there is something we are looking to do by loosing that weight, it could be you want to look good for that dance you’re going to next month or spring is coming and you want to look good in your bathing suit. Or your going to that high school reunion and you want to look good! Bottom line, it is what we link pain and pleasure to which creates our current reality. Truth is what is real for us at that moment in time. We must use pain and pleasure before pain and pleasure us. If we can do that we are in control of our life, if we don’t pain and pleasure will control our life. This week use your mental focus and change how you feel about any...
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